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This book discusses the emerging research centred on using methanol- whose excellent fuel properties, easy production and relative compatibility with existing technology- make it attractive to researchers looking to alternative fuels to meet the rising energy demand.

This book describes the discusses advanced fuels and combustion, emission control techniques, after-treatment systems, simulations and fault diagnostics, including discussions on different  engine diagnostic techniques such as particle image velocimetry (PIV), phase Doppler interferometry (PDI), laser ignition.

This book focuses on the two-phase flow problems relevant in the automotive and power generation sectors.

This book gathers the best articles presented by researchers and industrial experts at the International Conference on "e;Innovative Design and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2018)"e;.

The book includes the best articles presented by researchers, academicians and industrial experts at the International Conference on "e;Innovative Design and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2018)"e;.

This book presents the outcomes of the International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Automation (ICIMA 2018) organized by the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering at Dwarkadas J.

This book discusses the principle of automotive intelligent technology from the point of view of modern sensing and intelligent control.

This book addresses one of the most important components for pedestrian safety in vehicles - laminated windshields.

This book lays a new foundation toward achieving artificial self-intelligence by future machines such as intelligent vehicles.

This book discusses all aspects of advanced engine technologies, and describes the role of alternative fuels and solution-based modeling studies in meeting the increasingly higher standards of the automotive industry.

This book not only explores catalysis processes in redox reactions but also proposes a potential after-treatment strategy.

This book focuses on various aspects related to air pollution, including major sources of air pollution, measurement techniques, modeling studies and solution approaches to control.

This book describes the development of a new analytical, full-vehicle model with nine degrees of freedom, which uses the new modified skyhook strategy (SKDT) to control the full-vehicle vibration problem.

This book presents a three-dimensional analysis of acoustic wave propagation in an elliptical waveguide, and applies the equations and concepts to design axially short elliptical end-chamber muffler configurations which are an important component of a complex multi-pass muffler used in a modern-day automotive exhaust system.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of power-split device (PSD) design.

This book is an up-to-date text on rubber science and is a breakthrough among many rubber-related publications.

This book summarizes the advanced manufacturing technology of original innovations in hot stamping of lightweight car body.

The book presents the best articles presented by researchers, academicians and industrial experts in the International Conference on "e;Innovative Design and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2016)"e;.

This book offers an introduction to piezoelectric shells and distributed sensing, energy harvesting and control applications.

Many complex aeronautical design problems can be formulated with efficient multi-objective evolutionary optimization methods and game strategies.

An emerging trend in the automobile industry is its convergence with information technology (IT).

Since the education of aeronautical engineers at Delft University of Technology started in 1940 under tae inspiring leadership of Professor H.

Spaceflight Life Support and Biospherics is the introduction to space life support systems and artificial ecosystems that has so far been lacking.

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This book was written as a graduate student course--Shock Dynamics.

The aeronautics industry is presently aiming for faster design cycles and shorter time to market of new aircraft.

This book is devoted to the PSI method.

At the opening of the "e;Third Meeting on Celestial Mechanics - CELMEC III"e;, strong sensations hit our minds.

This book will appeal to all researchers that have an interest in the current Leonid showers.

Shell structures are widely used in the fields of civil, mechanical, architectural, aeronautical, and marine engineering.

In-fl ight simulation experiments performed in 1967 with a variable-stabil ity aircraft during the author's stay at Princeton University, motivated the study of handl ing characteristics of future transport aircraft with closed-loop fl ight control systems.

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Joints in components or structures incur a weight penalty, are a source of failure, cause manufacturing problems, and are unfortunately unavoidable in most structures ranging from aircraft, and spacecraft to ships and offshore platforms, to automobiles, bridges and buildings.

The mono graph contains 8 chapters, and their contents cover all principal aspects of the problem: 1.

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It turned out to be really a rare and happy occasion that we know exact1y when and how a new branch of space physics was born, namely, a physics of solar cosmic rays.

The IUTAM-IASS Symposium on Deployable Structures: Theory and Applications was held on 6-9 September 1998 in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Iteration regularization, i.

Reducing the cost of space program interests people more and more nowadays due to the concerns of budget limitation and commercialization of space technology.

Heat transfer enhancement in single-phase and two-phase flow heat exchangers in important in such industrial applications as power generating plant, process and chemical industry, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems, and the cooling of electronic equipment.

This textbook deals with optimization of dynamic systems.

In May 1995 a meeting took place at the Manchester Metropolitan Uni- versity, UK, with the title International Workshop on Numerical Methods for Wave Propagation Phenomena.

This volume contains selected contributions to the second Hydrogen Power, Theoretical and Engineering Solutions, International Symposium (HYPOTHESIS II), held in Grimstad, Norway, from 18 to 22 August 1997.

The idea of having a conference in Padova describing the results obtained by the Galileo spacecraft and the characteristics of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo began in 1995, when a number of colleagues from both sides of the Atlantic began exchanging suggestions and ideas.

The book is concerned with mathematical modelling of supersonic and hyper- sonic flows about bodies.

This text is intended for use as an advanced course in either rotordynamics or vibration at the graduate level.

Shell structures are used in all phases of structures, from space vehicles to deep submergence hulls, from nuclear reactors to domes on sport arenas and civic buildings.

Composite materials are increasingly used in aerospace, underwater, and automotive structures.

In the last 25 years, one of the most striking advances in Fluid Mecha- nics was certainly the discovery of coherent structures in turbulence: lab- oratory experiments and numerical simulations have shown that most turbulent flows exhibit both spatially-organized large-scale structures and disorganized motions, generally at smaller scales.